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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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House of Leaves

The most formally inventive horror novel — the house that defies space, the text that defies reading

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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

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Silent Hill 2

The greatest horror game — a journey into guilt and self-punishment

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The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Hereditary

Ari Aster's debut — grief as a haunting, family as a trap

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable